Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 30, 2021

As I wrote about two weeks ago, Domino’s is now partnering with Nuro in Houston to make robocar deliveries. Apple’s Advanced Manufacturing Fund is financing the project. According to the American Trucking Association (ATA), almost 75 percent of all freight is transported by truck.

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GlobalTranz

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

The damage from the overly active storms damaged both freight containers and trucks, and in Houston, the trucking industry is barely back to life. Strong Projections in Manufacturing Will Tighten Shipping Capacity Further. As the stock market continues to climb, the likelihood of increased manufacturing in the U.S.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

The people on the ground–my contacts in the 3PL, freight forwarding and transportation industry–know that the labor strife is only a part of the larger story. There is a need to re-shore where possible, and relocate manufacturing and supplier relationships. This is not going to be pretty.

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 9, 2018

More than a year into a freight capacity crisis that shows little sign of weakening, it’s time for all parties involved in logistics and freight transportation to meet this issue head on. A 2017 study from the American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) found that 19.5 That all changed with the summer of 2017.

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Material Handling & Logistics

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

“Even if a supplier’s factory is not flooded, the infrastructure (power, water, transportation, etc.) to the region of Texas that was affected by Hurricane Harvey, and 300 of them are in the Houston vicinity. Every product used or manufactured today relies in some way on these chemicals and chemical intermediates.

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Supply Chain Collaborator

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

With Hurricanes Jose and Maria still bearing down on the Caribbean, its time to consider some critical ways a strong transportation logistics program helps smart shippers literally weather these storms and maintain efficient operations in their wake. gasoline production capacity to drop by 10%.

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Material Handling & Logistics

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Hurricane Harvey has struck a significant blow to the Houston, Texas metro area, home to the sixth largest import terminal in the world, as well as all of the shipping lanes in the Gulf Coast area. For manufacturing, those metrics are new orders, production, employment, supplier deliveries, and inventories of input materials.

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Material Handling & Logistics

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

As transportation providers begin to recover from the immediate disruption and delays caused by the hurricanes, the greater domino effect of the hurricanes on supply chains will begin to appear. Communicating early and often to supply chain partners can alleviate the impact of storms on the supply chain.

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o9 Solutions

MAY 26, 2021

For CPG manufacturers changing volumes from modern trade (hyper/supermarkets) to e.g. discounters, e-Commerce. The need to respond to those changes while maintaining margins, service, and efficiencies with optimal planning of inventory, sourcing, transportation, and fulfilment. Houston – We have a Supply Chain Problem.

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o9 Solutions

MAY 26, 2021

For CPG manufacturers changing volumes from modern trade (hyper/supermarkets) to e.g. discounters, e-Commerce. The need to respond to those changes while maintaining margins, service, and efficiencies with optimal planning of inventory, sourcing, transportation, and fulfilment. Houston – We have a Supply Chain Problem.

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Freightos

APRIL 24, 2016

US Army uses the “Transporter” container, developed four years earlier for removals, for Korean War supply movements. to Houston, where the shipping containers are loaded onto trucks. First intermodal cargo transportation (containers are stacked on deck). Export manufacturing starts moving away from ports.

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GlobalTranz

APRIL 26, 2016

As a logistics service provider, focusing on over-the-road surface transportation management solutions via technology and managed transportation services, we find the following information on the history of shipping containers of great significance to the logistics and supply chain community at large. Significance. Did You Know That ….

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Material Handling & Logistics

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Behind the scenes during the tumultuous disaster season of 2017, building materials manufacturers leaned heavily on dynamic digital tools to supply recovery efforts. The urgent phone call to the building materials manufacturer came as yet another hurricane was churning its way toward landfall during the record storm season of 2017.

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EazyStock

JANUARY 18, 2019

ProMat is where manufacturing and supply chain professionals come to find their supply chain WOW. Houston, Texas. LogiChem is one of the top networking events for supply chain, logistics and transportation management executives within the chemical manufacturing industry. www.iwla.com. PROMAT 2019. April 8-11, 2019.

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ShipBob

MARCH 23, 2020

They will deliver free, fresh salads and bowls to hospitals in the cities they serve: DC Area, Philadelphia, Boston, NYC, SF, LA, Chicago, and Houston. Sweetgreen is offering free meals to healthcare workers and first responders in the coming days. Submit your hospital here. Free scrubs: Figs. Parkdale Inc. –

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GlobalTranz

AUGUST 26, 2015

Editor's Note : In this guest blog post from Adams Nager, of ITIF (Information Technology & Innovation Foundation) , he stresses the importance of fostering innovation and spurring competitiveness of American Manufacturing by focusing on more R&D from both the public and private sectors. The rest is history.

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Ware2Go

JANUARY 10, 2022

However, after a year and a half of increased consumer demand and manufacturing shutdowns that significantly stressed the supply chain, many merchants began planning early for the 2021 holiday season. Not only are manufacturing costs still elevated, storage rates are historically high.

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Elementum

MAY 13, 2015

The country’s underdeveloped intermodal freight transportation system is consistently outperformed by its faster and better integrated U.S. counterpart, while doubts about the security of goods being transported give carriers pause. Despite these drawbacks, Walmart is continuing to bank on Mexico’s supply chain.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

The damage from the overly active storms damaged both freight containers and trucks, and in Houston, the trucking industry is barely back to life. Strong Projections in Manufacturing Will Tighten Shipping Capacity Further. As the stock market continues to climb, the likelihood of increased manufacturing in the U.S.

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6 River Systems

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Sarah Boisvert @fablabhub Sarah Boisvert is the author of The New Collar Workforce and founder of Fab Lab Hub that offers Digital Badges for skills such as 3D printing, robotics, CAD design and AI in manufacturing. Southern California is an expensive place to operate, so many of their manufacturing customers have embraced robotic solutions.

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Freightera

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Goal : Freightera was tasked to move 8 heavy, oversize refinery units from Houston, Texas to Toledo, Ohio, USA (over 1250 miles) and 10 flat-bed loads. Once 2 units were delivered, drivers would drive back to Houston and load the next 2 units and go back and forth. Project 2 – Oversize Equipment Transport.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Last night, Ravens outside linebacker Justin Houston sacked Brady on back-to-back plays in the second quarter to make Brady the most-sacked quarterback in NFL history. Amazon’s European operations have been at the forefront of the company’s sustainable transportation push. decline in the volume of packages.

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NC State SCRC

APRIL 27, 2016

Companies like Flex are looking for ways to integrate vertically, not just on product manufacturing, but also in terms of how to collaborate better to drive more efficiency. This mechanism must be driven not simply by external impacts, such as floods in Houston or explosions in Tianjin. Brand owners are a key part of this.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Amazon launched the system this week at one of its warehouses in Houston. The Biden administration is refining rules aimed at keeping advanced chips and manufacturing gear out of China, seeking to close loopholes that might help its geopolitical rival gain cutting-edge technologies.

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DAT Solutions

JANUARY 2, 2018

2017 was a wild year, as freight transportation faced one disruption after another. This period of elevated rates is only the beginning of a "new normal" era in freight transportation. companies also ratcheted up manufacturing of petroleum byproducts, including plastic resins, which typically move in vans. E-commerce.

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ThroughPut

JUNE 3, 2019

We do it throughout entire industries, enabling leaders to smooth-out their Supply Chains, lean-out their Logistics, optimize their Operations, and maximize their Manufacturing throughput, all with their existing teams and often disaggregated data sources.

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Talking Logistics

AUGUST 23, 2013

Ryder Announces New Transportation Solutions for Oil and Gas Industry. Con-way Manufacturing, SmartTruck Systems and Kevin Rutherford Unveil State-of-the-Art Trailer. Innovation in logistics also occurs outside the realm of bits and bytes, as Con-way Manufacturing’s announcement this week demonstrates. in June from May. .”

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6 River Systems

APRIL 4, 2019

. “The logistics industry is one of the biggest industries that will profit most from the digital revolution in 2019…” From quicker deliveries to more sustainable ways of transportation, harmonizing big data and automation efforts will ensure exponential growth in the industry. ScienceSoft. Robert DeStefano. .

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NC State SCRC

AUGUST 30, 2017

Hurricane Harvey hit the Gulf Coast and Houston with driving rains that left many businesses struggling with flooding, with little advance warning. Entire warehouses full of products, as well as significant links in the global supply chain could be affected, as well as transport and other nodes.

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TMC

DECEMBER 8, 2016

A transportation management system (TMS) can help shippers weigh the pros and cons of each option. The trade-offs are especially critical for destinations in a “battleground” region that stretches from Detroit in the north to Houston in the south. The expanded Panama Canal has added many variables to freight transportation equations.

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Tailwind

DECEMBER 4, 2015

” “No – no – it’s supposed to go to Houston now. “The Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company I believe” “Do you guys have any iron ore you need to move? Pratt VP Marketing & Sales Tailwind Transportation Software We are wanting to.” Just a minute. ‘Yes, yes.it

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Material Handling & Logistics

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Adding insult to injury, manufacturers, suppliers and distributors are facing the impact of the storms at the worst time possible: the lead up to holiday season. Brands can expect to incur increased short-term transport costs in these situations, given transporters are likely already moving at near-peak capacity.

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CH Robinson Transportfolio

JULY 3, 2018

Consider this: global sourcing, manufacturing, and sales are advancing rapidly, leaving technology providers in the tough position of playing catch up. Imagine you are at your desk in Houston and you need to determine whether a completed order left the warehouse in China. management to efficiently address company requirements.

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DAT Solutions

MAY 2, 2017

And while some parts are small enough to be transported in dry vans, the big stuff—blades, towers, and the turbines that turn the blades—require flatbeds for transport. The map below shows where the largest parts of wind turbines are manufactured. Source: American Wind Energy Association.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 16, 2021

Domino’s pizzas now delivered with autonomous cars in Houston. The company is now partnering with Nuro in Houston to make robocar deliveries. Nuro’s R2 self-driving car is the only vehicle to receive an exemption from the US Department of Transportation to operate despite having no human controls.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 26, 2022

Recently, I presented at the Informs Analytics Conference in Houston and challenged companies to “ think out of the box” and define outside-in processes in Supply Chain Planning. As a recent college graduate, he was chartered with running manufacturing discrete event simulation for an automotive company. He was frustrated.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 18, 2021

The pilot program has already started in Houston and will use Nuro’s bots to travel on streets delivering packages. Waymo will transport goods along Interstate 45 between Houston and Fort Worth, Texas. FedEx said it has made a long-term commitment to use Nuro’s autonomous bots for last-mile delivery at large scale.

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